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the king riding through Paris after dusk on the same evening, and using 

 all his good sense to conciliate the people, succeeded for the time. 



When the question of the fatal year 1829 was before the legislature, 

 the friends of Christianity and the constitution exclaimed to the wretched 

 and apostate ministry, " Can you possibly be blind to the immediate 

 consequences of the guilty measure that you are now supporting ? You 

 surrender to clamour what could never have had a claim in reason, and 

 to make the mischief still surer, you actually profess to surrender it to 

 clamour. You declare, that you give Catholic emancipation to quell the 

 agitation of Ireland, that you give it through fear of violences, that the 

 time is come when it can be delayed no longer." The guilty measure 

 was accomplished, and now what is the language of the Irish agitators ? 

 Demanding a measure which will create civil war, destroy Protestantism 

 in Ireland, make Protestant property not worth a shilling, and turn the 

 whole population of Ireland into the slaves of a Roman Catholic faction , 

 and which will be carried ! " Agitate more and more, my boys ; for the 

 more you agitate the more you will get, and by agitation you will get as 

 much as you please." This is the language of popery now. 



Every man of common sense in England exclaimed, that the first 

 popish triumph over the Protestant constitution would be followed by a 

 second, or by a hundred, until there was a complete dismemberment of the 

 empire. The Union will be repealed. A parliament entirely popish will 

 be chosen ; feelings utterly hostile to England and Protestantism will be 

 the very breath and life of that parliament. England will resist the con- 

 spiracy. The resistance will be met by force. Allies for Ireland will be 

 sought among the popish powers of the continent. France will declare 

 the principle of non-intervention as in the case of the Netherlands. 

 Spanish and French gold and troops will be ready on the first emer- 

 gency. The money of all popish Europe, of every province, and every 

 Driest owing allegiance to popery, will be poured in to sustain what they 

 will proclaim a persecution on the part of England, and a crusade on 

 heir own ; and the British empire will, if not undone, be a theatre of 

 blood and flame. And this was openly predicted, and will be fully borne 

 out by the inevitable results of the guilty measure. We have at this 

 moment Mr. O'Connell actually turning by his presence the Irish govern- 

 ment into a cypher, and detailing to the maddened populace, views, 

 whose expression astonishes us equally at the supineness of law, and the 

 daring defiance of the speaker. On his arrival in Dublin a week since, 

 he was received by all "the trades" in marching order, with banners and 

 emblems ; and a concourse of all the populace, never equalled, as we are 

 told, but on the entrance of the late king. 



" About six o'clock the procession reached Mr. O'Connell's house in Mer- 

 rion-square ; and he addressed the assembled multitude, which amounted to 

 not less than 50,000, from the balcony. After assuring 1 them that they would 

 certainly achieve the repeal of the Union, he concluded as follows: 'France 

 waded to liberty through blood the Poles are wading to liberty through blood 

 but mark me, my friends, the shedding- of one drop of blood in Ireland would 

 effectually destroy all chance of repealing the Union. I wear round my neck 

 the medal of the Order of Liberators, suspended from a riband of orange and 

 green. I press the Orange to my lips I press it to my heart. I have abused 

 the Orangemen on my knees, in the presence of God I beg their pardon/ 

 Great part of the City was illuminated, and bonfires blazed in various places." 



This is but a fragment of a speech filled with the bitterest gall against 

 all that we revere. But what are we to think of his wily appeals to the 

 French and Flemish revolutions ? " They both waded to liberty through 



